At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

Kamala Das in Malayalam, Maha Shveta Devi in Bengali, Ismat Chughtai and Quratulain Hyder in Urdu, Krishna Sobti in Hindi and ...

David Roy chats to top comedian Frank Skinner about why his only Irish show of the year will be a poetry-centric event at Seamus Heaney HomePlace ...

An icon of his time, Lord Byron (aka George Gordon) is one of the best-known English poets of the early 19th-century Romantic Movement. He’s just as famous for his countless affairs with men and ...

The Soviet secret police were particularly brutal in Ukraine, given that it was a country with a long history of resistance ...

In either case, one of the A-levels must be in English Literature ( or English Language and Literature, but not English Language alone). The University of Manchester will consider applications from ...

Barbara Holdridge and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of such famous writers as Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot reciting their work. Holdridge died Monday at 95.

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Luxembourg director Anne Simon has already proven that Shakespeare doesn’t have to be dry, dusty spoken theatre - which is ...

In either case, one of the A-levels must be in English Literature ( or English Language and Literature, but not English Language alone). The University of Manchester will consider applications from ...

The French director’s Austen-influenced romcom with a clever spin was inspired by a stint working at Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company ...